In this issue

Highlights of India Today –22nd February 2021 issue: This week's Cover Story talks about Tamil Nadu’s first assembly election without its towering leaders. But the contest is still very much between the Dravidian heavyweights DMK and AIADMK. The national parties are likely to be bit players. This week's Big Story talks about Rakesh Tikait's impassioned appeal having resuscitated the farmers' movement and given the Jats a leader to rally around, making the government's task much more difficult. This week's Special Story looks at India's armed forces suffering due to crippling dependence on whimsical global weapons manufacturers.

THE THIRD DIMENSION

A broad ‘secular’ alliance is in the works in the run-up to the West Bengal assembly election, with the Congress-Left combine warming to influential Muslim cleric Abbas Siddiqui and his Indian Secular Front (ISF), launched on January 21

6 mins

Mission Mumbai

On January 29, Maha­rashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray unveiled the first driver­ less coach of the Mumbai Metro.

4 mins

A HALF-OPEN WINDOW

An honest critique of former vice-president Mohammad Hamid Ansari’s autobiography, By Many a Happy Accident, is difficult.

3 mins

Tamil Nadu - The Great Poll Opera

It’s Tamil Nadu’s first assembly election without its towering leaders. But the contest is still very much between the Dravidian heavyweights DMK and AIADMK. The national parties are likely to be bit players

10+ mins

Uttarakhand Disaster - A Rude Wake-Up Call

A devastating flash flood in the Himalayan state highlights the urgent need to protect the region’s fragile environment and review unbridled development activity

5 mins

Farmers: The BJP's Jat Headache

Rakesh Tikait’s impassioned appeal has resuscitated the farmers’ movement and given the Jats a leader to rally around, making the government’s task that much more difficult

8 mins

Pinarayi in Poll Position

The local body election results have injected new life into the Left Front election campaign. Can the CPI(M) chief minister ride them to victory?

7 mins

THE FIREARMS TRAP

India’s armed forces suffer due to crippling dependence on whimsical global weapons manufacturers. Behind the crisis is the country’s flawed firearms production-acquisition policy and low R&D

8 mins

COMING SOON TO A THEATRE NEAR YOU

With cinemas operating at full capacity again, producers and studios are announcing release dates for the blockbusters they have been sitting on for the past year

7 mins

KITCHEN SINK REALISM

By telling the story of a woman imprisoned in her kitchen, Jeo Baby’s new film speaks for all women

2 mins

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